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Despite reassuring research suggesting that creative jobs are safe from automation, AI looks likely to take over much of the more mundane work of designers and art directors. But rather than an existential threat, the optimistic view is that by freeing creative people from drudgery, AI could open the door to exciting new opportunities.

AI systems are already impacting our lives, yet few legislators understand them, never mind knowing how to control them. In the absence of effective government oversight, can we trust Big Tech to regulate itself?

What is a robot? Carlo Ratti – director of MIT’s Senseable City Lab and an adviser to the Vitra Design Museum’s new Hello Robot exhibition – defines a robot as anything with sensors (tools or apparatus to collect data); intelligence (the ability to interpret that data) and actuators that can generate a physical response. “If those […]

Duncan Gough makes art from social tech, creating meaningful experiences and even robotic companions. Here, he talks to collaborator Leila Johnston about his desire to use AI to make useless, beautiful things

As data and its use becomes ever more central to creative practice, designers must decide who is making the decisions – them or the computer? Francisco Laranjo argues that a thorough understanding of the technical, social and political workings of algorithms and AI are key to the profession’s future

In the Channel 4 series Humans, audiences were shown a world where androids – or ‘synths’ – are a part of normal, everyday life. We talk to the show’s writers, Jon Brackley and Sam Vincent, about the real AI that lies behind the story, and whether the robots are, in fact, coming.

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Ten years ago, you might have decided your business needed a smartphone app to compete. Today, you may be considering putting a chatbot on your website for the same reason. But consumers have never been more empowered – and they don’t want chatbots. In fact, they don’t even want to navigate around your website.

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